XRPL smart contracts went live on AlphaNet in November 2025, opening DeFi for the first time. Can programmable payments boost ...

Anthropic says AI exploited recent smart contracts and found $4.6M in flaws, pointing to rising risk of AI-driven attacks.

Bitcoin was invented to replace banks, but underlying technology - blockchain – proved it could replace almost any intermediary. It did not stop there; now that we had digital money, we could do ...

Recent research by major artificial intelligence company Antropic and AI security organization Machine Learning Alignment & ...

Despite being groundbreaking, smart contracts are not impervious to flaws that malevolent parties could exploit. Inadequate input validation is a prevalent weakness that enables attackers to affect ...

Smart contracts automate transactions on blockchains, cutting out middlemen and reducing fees. Decentralized finance uses smart contracts for trading, lending, and more without traditional banks.

New analysis showed models including Claude Opus and GPT-5 uncovered millions in simulated vulnerabilities across blockchains ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. For years, the blockchain industry has been defined by the excitement around smart contracts, or tamper-proof digital agreements that ...

Smart contracts are the worker bees of blockchain technology. Most of the programs that run on blockchains–ranging from financial exchanges to games–are decentralized applications (dapps) that are ...

A lawyer breaks down the existing legislation that determines whether smart contracts are smart, legally binding or a even contract at all. Updated Sep 11, 2021, 1:29 p.m. Published Jun 26, 2017, ...